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Originally Posted by Pierre
Yes reporters can be "embedded" but that does not give them unfettered access, and they will go were the unit they are embedded with go, and they will do exactly what the soldiers tell them to do, and if the soldiers tell them to stay where they are, they will stay where they are and they will see what the soldiers around them want them to see.
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The embedded reporters are those on the front-line reporting on that effort. It's not the entirety of reporting on war. For example, in the 2003 Iraq War, there were reporters embedded with front-line troops
and reporters in Baghdad. In the Syrian Civil War, there were reporters based in Damascus.
There are still reporters in Kyiv and Moscow right now, even as Kyiv is being bombed.
The only difference is that none of these conflicts had one participant who could control access to the entire country/zone. Since Israel controls the Gaza Strip they do, and they're using this to limit any independent reporting of what is happening there.
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That's a very naive view.
Reporters were embedded with UK and US troops and they were shown exactly what they needed to be shown and the UK and US control the narrative.
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Reporters embedded with the troops in Iraq were only getting roughly what the UK/US wanted to see. But they were actually embedded, not taken on guided tours, so their access was greater. I somehow doubt the IDF would let an independent journalist be with them all the time on the front line.
And as mentioned, reporters were elsewhere in Iraq.
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The difference is if you embedded reporters with the IDF, regardless, no one would believe the reporting unless it showed the cold blooded murder of Palestinians. Israel would be on a hiding to nothing, so why bother in the first place.
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Well, what can it hurt if there is not a lot of killing of innocent civilians? As mentioned with the medics who were killed Israel just denied it until there was actual video and they had to admit to 'a mistake'.
You call me naive, but you're defending a system where the only information that comes out of Gaza is controlled by the IDF. Might as well just repost IDF press releases on here instead of arguing about it.